Finished Product

Diary Entry #10

It's the final hand in and I've just completed the finishing touches, such as adding the colour pattern to the cover font, moving my barcode to a horizontal angle, adding a new 'gig', altering page numbers and contents details, resizing the page numbers and alligning text.

Rough Draft Evaluation

Recurring advice:

• Fill or remove the black space at the bottom of the contents page
• Contents + DPS images are too simalar - change the outfit + add an image or two of another model in the contents
• Perhaps experiment with different camera angles when reshooting photos
• Add captions + descriptions to images
• DPS could have a few more quirks and details to it - perhaps an inset image
• Contents page could do with some more branding features
  

Diary Entry #9

I've added small details to areas such as the "Free Trance CD" 'sticker' and began filling in the black box at the bottom of my page with details of the CD content. This included designing the CD's 'front cover'. I also corrected my spelling errors and added a few details to the DPS too, such as a caption and making my second quote match the first.

Diary Entry #8

Had my work peer and teacher evaluated today after the rough cut hand-in. I also evaluated the work of others and got alot of ideas and tips just from looking at them and what other students have noticed.
The evaluation was exactly the help I needed, as I was perhaps too proud of my work and found it hard to spot flaws myself. The recurring comments made me realise what was most noticably good or bad and those really helped me determine where I needed to go on the second draft.

First Draft

Original Photos

Above are all of my original photos taken for use in my magazine. They are in their unedited forms and any lighting effects seen in them were due to strategic placement of the model.

Diary Entry #7

I have just about completed my entire rough cut this week. It's taken alot of trial and error and a lot of elements thought up in my initial ideas had to be scrapped as they didn't look the part when actually in place. I feel like Mixmag was my main influence, although I did take a few elements from Tilllate aswell.
I think I'm doing pretty well so far and I think I've had a good start to the creation of my magazine.